The Atlas Six

Libby

Libby and Nico are discussing the elimination process. When Libby mentions that she broke up with Ezra, Nico claims that he and Libby are inextricably linked, although he resents it. Libby then goes back to her room, but a strange magical phenomenon around her sets her on alert. She starts screaming when an unknown presence grabs her.

Tristan

Tristan and Callum are interrupted by Libby’s scream, so they rush back to the others and find Libby’s room locked. Inside, they find Libby’s dead body. Everyone is shocked and immediately tries to figure out what happened, but Tristan uses his magical sight and realizes that Libby isn’t there. They are seeing an illusion. They agree that Libby must have been abducted, and Callum later points out to Tristan that her scream sounded rageful, suggesting she was betrayed by someone she knows.

Nico

Nico and the others have tried to find Libby for weeks to no avail: they cannot sense her anywhere on earth. Nico consults Gideon, who suggests they should consider searching different dimensions, pointing out a flaw in the house’s magical security that could have been used to take Libby to a different time dimension. Nico argues that it would be impossible to summon enough power to break a time ward and makes Gideon promise to help him find Libby.

Parisa

Since Libby has effectively been eliminated, the initiation ritual will go on. In their current lecture, the group learns about Viviana, a woman who died by accident but was revealed through autopsy to never age. The group discusses the possibility that time itself might have been her medeian specialty. Later, Parisa prompts Dalton to reveal that he recognized Libby’s dead body as an illusion. He adds that only he would be able to create one of that caliber. Parisa then vows to set Dalton free.

Reina

Reina and Nico conduct an experiment and learn that Nico, using Reina’s energy as a power source, can create life. Later, Reina asks Atlas about Gideon. He is aware of Nico’s friend but did not offer him a place at the Society. She then asks about the “traveler” Atlas mentioned as another potential initiate when he recruited her, but Atlas tells her that he was not rejected.

Ezra

This section focuses on Ezra, summarizing his life until he met Libby. Ezra is a medeian who can jump through time. When he was young, Ezra tried to save his mother from a shooting, but eventually learned that some events are fixed in time regardless of his desire to alter them. Additionally, because he spends so much time jumping ahead, he ages more slowly than other people. As a young man, he was recruited by the Alexandrian Society, where he met fellow initiate Atlas Blakely. The two bonded over their shared distrust of the Society’s rigid rules and came up with a plan to gain the library’s power. Over time, Atlas worked his way to the position of Caretaker while Ezra hid. They would then be able to select a perfect team of candidates, including a still young and now forgotten Ezra, to destroy the Society and build a new world. In the meantime, Ezra gathers information on potential medeian candidates and meets Nico and Libby. However, as the new candidates are introduced to the Society, Ezra begins to question Atlas’s motives. He decides to counter Atlas by taking Libby away from him and hiding her in an unspecified dimension of time. Then, he meets with the leaders of the Society’s six most powerful enemies (which include James Wessex).

End

Ahead of the initiation, Nico makes everyone else promise that they will help him find Libby or he will not go through with it. The final part of the chapter shows Dalton reflecting on the initiation he is witnessing, knowing it is binding the initiates to forces they do not fully understand yet.